Practice Makes Efficient: Cortical Alpha Oscillations Are Associated With Improved Golf Putting Performance.

ABSTRACT: Practice of a motor skill results in improved performance and decreased movement awareness. The psychomotor efficiency hypothesis proposes that the development of motor expertise through practice is accompanied by physiological refinements whereby irrelevant processes are suppressed and relevant processes are enhanced. The present study employed a test-retest design to evaluate the presence of greater neurophysiological efficiency with practice and mediation analyses to identify the factors accounting for performance improvements, in a golf putting task. Putting performance, movement-specific conscious processing, electroencephalographic alpha power and alpha connectivity were measured from 12 right-handed recreational golfers (age: M = 21 years; handicap: M = 23) befo

SUBMITTER: Gallicchio G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5506342 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature